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on the Alcan highway. During the next
17 months he was located at numerous
places in Alaska and Canada, including
Skagway and White Horse.
In February, 1944, his outfit ship
ped to the South seas and 37 days later
landed at Darwin, Australia. From there
it went to Hollandia, then to Morotai
where it took a lot of pounding from
Japanese night bombers. His outfit
went in just behind the infantry on the
Lingayen beach in the Luzon invasion.
For the balance of his tour of duty he
was located at various places on Luzon.
Hayes states that two of his out
standing experiences were the trip over
and the one back. He was seasick just
51 days. T hat’s the time it took to
make the two trips.
Cumberland offensive w ith a brilliant
run around left end that resulted in
only an eight-yard loss.” He tackled
one Tech man on the thirty-yard line
and hung around his neck all the way
to the goal line. "Once I fumbled,” he
remembers, "and as three Tech ogres
bore down, another Cumberland stal
w art shied away from the loose ball.
"Pick it up, I yelled to the guy, but
what do you think he answered? "Pick
it up, hell, he said, "I didn’t drop it.”
Hilbert Young who spent several
months in the amphibious CB’s is back
to work for the State Highway Com
mission at Roseburg. Hill was in the
Normandy invasion. He also spent
some time in the South Pacific, but
before he came home he visited several
places in Japan.
The following item was clipped from
The Ship’s Log, Bremerton N avy Yard
weekly which is edited by E. F. Mc
N ulty, SM 3/c, formerly executive sec
retary of the Keep Oregon Green As
sociation:
The most lopsided football game in
the record books took place in 1916.
Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland
College, 2 2 0-0. There lives a man who
admits he quarterbacked that Cumber
land team: George Allen, former com
missioner of the D istrict of Columbia.
Allen treasures a yellowed clipping
which reads, "Allen spearheaded the
Capt. Martin L. Beyerlein, Ü.S. Air
Force Engineers, is soon to go on ter
minal leave. He called at Nehalem
Highway Office recently and said that
he would be back to go to work about
Eugene Brake and Motor
Eugene Planing Mill
E. E. Merewether, Proprietor
Warren Mann, after attaining his
goal (sight seeing in Tokyo) has been
discharged and is enjoying an extended
vacation in Roseburg. He says he is
going to take life easy for several
months then he will think about going
to work again.
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